The Bloody Bay poison frog (''Mannophryne olmonae'') is a species of frog in the family

Aromobatidae The Aromobatidae are a family of frogs native to Central and South America. They are sometimes referred to as cryptic forest frogs or cryptic poison frogs. They are the sister taxon of the Dendrobatidae, the poison dart frogs, but are not as toxi ...

. It is endemic to the island of Tobago in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Its natural habitats are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

and

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

s mainly in the northeastern mountainous half of the island. This classified "critically Endangered" species according to the IUCN Global Amphibian Assessment conducted a survey and that based on the population that surveyed out over 23 extralimital populations and has been found in a variety of forest that included degraded

secondary forest A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a timber harvest or clearing for agriculture, until a long enough period has passed so that the effects of the disturbance are no longer evident. ...

and abandoned cacao plantations.

References

*Lehtinen, R. M., Calkins, T. L., Novick, A. M., & McQuigg, J. L. (2015, June 1). Reassessing the Conservation Status of an Island Endemic Frog. Retrieved October 14, 2019, from https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-herpetology/volume-50/issue-2/14-161/Reassessing-the-Conservation-Status-of-an-Island-Endemic-Frog/10.1670/14-161.full. Mannophryne Amphibians described in 1983 Endemic fauna of Trinidad and Tobago Amphibians of Trinidad and Tobago Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Aromobatidae-stub